Karl Marlantes Quotes - Page 2

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• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  Karl Marlantes

  Character, Long, Literature

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• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  Karl Marlantes

  Writing, Years, Agents

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• He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no woman’s strength in Mellas at all.

  Karl Marlantes

  Men, Inner Strength, Legs

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”, p.414, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

  Karl Marlantes

  Vets, Mature, Cynicism

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• How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

  Karl Marlantes

  Mad At Someone, Switzerland, Able

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.39, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

  Karl Marlantes

  Book, Writing, Important

  "A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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